Name							GHS Urban Centre Database 2015, multitemporal and multidimensional attributes, R2019A	
Dataset ID						GHS_STAT_UCDB2015MT_GLOBE_R2019A_V1_2	
Version							V1_2	
Data Last Update				07/04/2020	
Alternative name (with version)	GHS Urban Centre Database 2015, Public Release 2019, Version 1.2	
Accronym						GHS-UCDB 2015 R2019 V1.2	
Authors							Florczyk, Aneta J.; Corbane, Christina; Schiavina, Marcello; Pesaresi, Martino; Maffenini, Luca; Melchiorri, 	Michele; Politis, Panagiotis; Sabo, Filip; Freire, Sergio; Ehrlich, Daniele; Kemper, Thomas; Tommasi, Pierpaolo; Airaghi, Donato; Zanchetta, Luigi 	
Document Version				V1.2	
Document Last Update			07/04/2020	
		
Contact point					JRC-GHSL<at>EC.EUROPA.EU		GHSL project related questions
								JRC-GHSL-DATA<at>EC.EUROPA.EU	GHSL data related questions

What's new in V1.2
	Fields update:
	 - E_EC2E_E75, E_EC2E_E90, E_EC2E_E00, E_EC2E_E15, E_EC2E_R75, E_EC2E_R90, E_EC2E_R00, E_EC2E_R15, E_EC2E_I75, E_EC2E_I90, E_EC2E_I00, E_EC2E_I15, E_EC2E_T75, E_EC2E_T90, E_EC2E_T00, E_EC2E_T15, E_EC2E_A75, E_EC2E_A90, E_EC2E_A00, E_EC2E_A15, E_EC2O_E75, E_EC2O_E90, E_EC2O_E00, E_EC2O_E15, E_EC2O_R75, E_EC2O_R90, E_EC2O_R00, E_EC2O_R15, E_EC2O_I75, E_EC2O_I90, E_EC2O_I00, E_EC2O_I15, E_EC2O_T75, E_EC2O_T90, E_EC2O_T00, E_EC2O_T15, E_EC2O_A75, E_EC2O_A90, E_EC2O_A00, E_EC2O_A15, E_EPM2_E75, E_EPM2_E90, E_EPM2_E00, E_EPM2_E15, E_EPM2_R75, E_EPM2_R90, E_EPM2_R00, E_EPM2_R15, E_EPM2_I75, E_EPM2_I90, E_EPM2_I00, E_EPM2_I15, E_EPM2_T75, E_EPM2_T90, E_EPM2_T00, E_EPM2_T15, E_EPM2_A75, E_EPM2_A90, E_EPM2_A00, E_EPM2_A15 (new values updated)
	 Output of EDGARv5.0 (Crippa et al., 2019). Data of 2012 are substituted with 2015. Compared to the emissions provided by EDGAR v4.3.2 (used V1.0 and V1.1) new population-based spatial proxies have been developed using the GHSL Data Package 2019; Florczyk et al., 2019)
 
	Fixed issue of datatype for value fields
	
What's new in V1.1
	Fields update:
	 - UC_NM_MN, UC_NM_LST, UC_NM_SRC (new inputs and algorithm; see section 2.4.4 in http://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/GHSL_Data_Package_2019.pdf)
	 - TT2CC (fixed bug in the algorithm)
	 - E_GR_AV90, E_GR_AV00, E_GR_AV14 (fixed data export to excel and vector attribute list)
 
	Vector format to open source .gpkg (GeoPackage)

	Tables encoding in UTF-8	
	
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Dataset Citation
	Florczyk, A.J., Corbane, C., Schiavina, M., Pesaresi, M., Maffenini, L., Melchiorri, M., Politis, P., Sabo, F., Freire, S., Ehrlich, D., Kemper, T., Tommasi, P., Airaghi, D. and L. Zanchetta. 2019. GHS Urban Centre Database 2015, multitemporal and multidimensional attributes, R2019A. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/53473144-b88c-44bc-b4a3-4583ed1f547e					

Related Resources
	Description of the GHS-UCDB 2015 R2019 V1.0
		Florczyk, A.J., Melchiorri, M., Corbane, C., Schiavina, M., Maffenini, M., Pesaresi, M., Politis, P., Sabo, S., Freire, S., Ehrlich, D., Kemper, T., Tommasi, P., Airaghi, D. and L. Zanchetta, Description of the GHS Urban Centre Database 2015, Public Release 2019, Version 1.0, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2019, ISBN 978-92-79-99753-2, doi:10.2760/037310, JRC115586.				
	Atlas of the Human Planet 2018
		European Commision, Joint Research Centre, Atlas of the Human Planet 2018. A world of cities. EUR 29497 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018, doi:10.2760/124503						
	GHSL data (CR2018) used in production of the database.
		Florczyk, A.J., Ehrlich, D., Corbane, C., Freire, S., Kemper, T., Melchiorri, M., Pesaresi, M., Politis, P., Schiavina, M., Zanchetta, L., Community pre-Release of GHS Data Package (GHS CR2018) in support to the GEO Human Planet Initiative, EUR 29466 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018, doi:10.2760/777868				
